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Two years ago I wrote about what I called "a huge, unexploited opportunity in startup funding:" the growing disconnect between VCs, whose current business model requires them to invest large amounts, and a large class of startups that need less than they used to. Increasingly, startups want a couple hundred thousand dollars, not a couple million.
Read more here
http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html
Thursday, November 18
What You See Is What You Get: My autobiography, by Alan Sugar
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Lord Sugar is something of a conundrum. In some ways, despite all the "It does what it says on the tin", no-nonsense swagger of his autobiography, he is the ultimate Marmite leader. Loved by millions as the bullying, lecturing front man on The Apprentice, he is loathed by others for the same thing.
Read more here
http://www.director.co.uk/MAGAZINE/2010/10_November/books-alan-sugar-autobiography_64_03.html
Lord Sugar is something of a conundrum. In some ways, despite all the "It does what it says on the tin", no-nonsense swagger of his autobiography, he is the ultimate Marmite leader. Loved by millions as the bullying, lecturing front man on The Apprentice, he is loathed by others for the same thing.
Read more here
http://www.director.co.uk/MAGAZINE/2010/10_November/books-alan-sugar-autobiography_64_03.html
Enterprise becomes a family affair
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It is never too late to become a serial entrepreneur. Thirty years ago Christine Roberts founded Roberts Warr Electronics with her husband Ron, supplying electronic components to customers including Acorn Computers and achieving a turnover of £2m. When Ron died in 2003 she continued to run the company, but by 2007 the business was suffering from the downturn in the electronics market
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/startingout/6522700/Enterprise-becomes-a-family-affair.html
It is never too late to become a serial entrepreneur. Thirty years ago Christine Roberts founded Roberts Warr Electronics with her husband Ron, supplying electronic components to customers including Acorn Computers and achieving a turnover of £2m. When Ron died in 2003 she continued to run the company, but by 2007 the business was suffering from the downturn in the electronics market
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/startingout/6522700/Enterprise-becomes-a-family-affair.html
Delivering results in the face of adversity
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After the collapse of his call centre business because of a change in the way his clients operated, the last thing on Mark Livsey's mind was setting up another company. As a director of the failed firm he received a redundancy payout and then set about looking for a regular job. But over a 10-month period, he had little luck in the job market and began to realise that working for himself was his best chance of making a success of his future.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/startingout/7728982/Delivering-results-in-the-face-of-adversity.html
After the collapse of his call centre business because of a change in the way his clients operated, the last thing on Mark Livsey's mind was setting up another company. As a director of the failed firm he received a redundancy payout and then set about looking for a regular job. But over a 10-month period, he had little luck in the job market and began to realise that working for himself was his best chance of making a success of his future.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/startingout/7728982/Delivering-results-in-the-face-of-adversity.html
A criminal record should not close the door on a career
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One of the toughest challenges for business leaders is to recognise potential and identify the best talent to improve their companies. Of course, it is the employer's prerogative to choose people that suit their organisation but, whenever I'm asked what I look for personally, I always say passion, talent and potential – regardless of what candidates have done before in their lives.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/duncan-bannatyne/7640039/A-criminal-record-should-not-close-the-door-on-a-career.html
One of the toughest challenges for business leaders is to recognise potential and identify the best talent to improve their companies. Of course, it is the employer's prerogative to choose people that suit their organisation but, whenever I'm asked what I look for personally, I always say passion, talent and potential – regardless of what candidates have done before in their lives.
Read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/duncan-bannatyne/7640039/A-criminal-record-should-not-close-the-door-on-a-career.html
Google announces 'Instant Previews' search feature
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People searching on Google will soon be able to see previews of websites before clicking on them. The 'Instant Previews' feature announced Tuesday is meant to help people bypass websites that are either irrelevant or simply too visually cluttered for their tastes. It works for Google Web searches, as well as searches for news, video and local businesses.
Read more here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101109/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_instant_previews
People searching on Google will soon be able to see previews of websites before clicking on them. The 'Instant Previews' feature announced Tuesday is meant to help people bypass websites that are either irrelevant or simply too visually cluttered for their tastes. It works for Google Web searches, as well as searches for news, video and local businesses.
Read more here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101109/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_instant_previews
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